Over A Billion People Live In Slums, Along With Anita, Yosiah And A Few Other Jesus Followers

This newly published book should be required reading for every well-to-do person in the world. Order by November 15 for a 25% discount.

"Beyond Our Walls is a powerful, wrenching, inspiring and compelling book. Powerful because it is a mighty call to follow Jesus. Wrenching because it shows with painful clarity what it means to follow Jesus into the slums. Inspiring because Anita's and her husband's amazing faith shine through every page. Compelling because it draws us to live like Jesus no matter the cost. Beyond our Walls is an amazing book that merits millions of readers. Highly recommended!"

- the late Ronald J. Sider, author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

The author of Beyond Our Walls, who uses a pen name for security reasons, has for over a decade been living inside a world most of us would find unbelievably difficult, and here shares the story of how she and her husband (and now two children) have experienced living with Jesus in that place. 

Some of us at our house church have been following this story for years, so having it brought together in this book was of special interest. As I read it I found myself repeatedly asking, How do they do this in the face of the stench, the mosquitoes, the oppressive heat, the cramped quarters, the prevalence of diseases and infections, the floods, the fires and smoke, and the ever present threat of evictions?

It becomes clear that they are there because they find Jesus in that place, in his heart of concern for the poor and in the lives of fellow human beings the rest of the world wants to ignore.

It took me less than three days of spare time reading to get through this compelling story. It will take me the rest of my life to fully grasp what it is to teach me about serving and following Jesus no matter the cost.